How important is the university to employers?

I studied and completed my first year of Mathematics at Warwick, and got a first. I have transferred universities to Manchester where I'll be doing my second, third and possibly fourth year. I transferred because I wasn't settling in too well at Warwick, and Manchester is my home town and all my friends are here as well as other personal reasons.

I am confident I could get a first from either university, but my question is how much are employers going to take into account where you got your degree from? Would it make that much difference when I'm at a job interview if I had a first from Manchester or Warwick?

In theory, no. I'd imagine the name of the university(so long as it's good) is inferior in importantance to degree class, interview, experience, A Levels and probably even GCSEs. A girl I'm friends with rejected an Oxford offer for Law and chose Cardiff because she wanted to stay close to her family. She had 11A* and 4A* at A Level. Does that mean an Oxford graduate is going to be preferred to her if they both have the same degree class? No. (Unless the Oxford graduate has a comparable academic record, experience and good interview).

In theory, no. I'd imagine the name of the university(so long as it's good) is inferior in importantance to degree class, interview, experience, A Levels and probably even GCSEs. A girl I'm friends with rejected an Oxford offer for Law and chose Cardiff because she wanted to stay close to her family. She had 11A* and 4A* at A Level. Does that mean an Oxford graduate is going to be preferred to her if they both have the same degree class? No. (Unless the Oxford graduate has a comparable academic record, experience and good interview).

Does the university you go to not determine the difficulty of the course and the exams you do though? I've seen many people say that a 2.1 from Oxbridge is better than a 1.1 from a uni regarding as being lower rated.

I studied and completed my first year of Mathematics at Warwick, and got a first. I have transferred universities to Manchester where I'll be doing my second, third and possibly fourth year. I transferred because I wasn't settling in too well at Warwick, and Manchester is my home town and all my friends are here as well as other personal reasons.

I am confident I could get a first from either university, but my question is how much are employers going to take into account where you got your degree from? Would it make that much difference when I'm at a job interview if I had a first from Manchester or Warwick? I'm worried that I have made the wrong decision in transferring and I should just have stuck it out a couple of more years at Warwick. (I loved the course there, just wasn't settling in well)

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like it does matter, which is a small problem for me.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but in my personal view it's not fair that students at Warwick - and I'm sure other universities like Cambridge - have to put themselves through an incredibly rigorous mathematics course only for it to have no difference in the end.

Does the university you go to not determine the difficulty of the course and the exams you do though? I've seen many people say that a 2.1 from Oxbridge is better than a 1.1 from a uni regarding as being lower rated.

The world isn't fair. As a student at Warwick or Cambridge, you're literally bombarded with constant employer presentations, special networking events, research opportunities people at some other universities could only dream of. All of this makes life easier, even if the degree itself is more difficult.

To add, it actually does make quite a lot of difference in some specialised roles - especially at quantitative finance firms

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It can make a difference if you are talking about the top of the university scale and the bottom and also depending on course. There will be no material difference between maths at Manchester and Warwick.